The Milgram Experiment

Stanley Milgram was a psychologist at which university?

• Harvard University

• Yale University

• Stanford University

• Princeton University

The Milgram Experiment focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and what?

• Personal conscience

• Social norms

• Peer pressure

• Cultural beliefs

In what year did the experiments begin, a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann?

• 1959

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

Milgram's experiment was devised to answer whether Eichmann and his accomplices were just following what?

• Orders

• Laws

• Traditions

• Beliefs

The common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II was that Germans were particularly obedient to what?

• Family

• Authority figures

• Friends

• Society

Fill in the blank: The defense of those accused at the Nuremberg Trials was often based on 'obedience' — that they were just following ________.

• Orders

• Suggestions

• Advice

• Hints

Fill in the blank: Milgram's experiment began a year after the trial of Adolf ________ in Jerusalem.

• A) Eichmann

• B) Hitler

• C) Goebbels

• D) Himmler

How many variations of the experiment did Milgram conduct?

• 10

• 15

• 18

• 20

Fill in the blank: The learner gave mainly wrong answers on ____.

• Accident

• Purpose

• Confusion

• Mistake

What must be in place for a person to enter the agentic state?

• The person giving orders is seen as legitimate

• The person being ordered is rebellious

• The person giving orders is unknown

• The person being ordered is independent